Team Romney is drawing satisfaction and a growing sense of confidence from a new CNN poll that, while over-weighting Democrats, shows that Mitt Romney is running away with independents, the Big Kahuna in Tuesday's presidential election.

According to a new CNN poll, Romney is beating President Obama 59 percent to 35 percent among independents even when third party candidates are included. The poll has the race deadlocked at 49 percent, but the sample includes 11 percent more Democrats than Republicans, 41 percent to 30 percent, a bigger gap than recent elections have witnessed.

What's more, the poll found a slight edge for Romney when it came to those who call themselves "very enthusiastic" about voting. In that category, Romney beats Obama 42 percent to 37 percent.

"We are winning with independents and enthusiasm goes to us," said a Romney associate, who also pointed to the huge, 20,000-30,000 strong crowd that greeted Romney in Pennsylvania Sunday night as proof the Republican had regained momentum.

"If it's tied overall and we are crushing with independents and have enthusiasm on our side, and we get 30,000 to show up in Pennsylvania," a GOP advisor said, the election should turn to Romney.

Another Romney advisor said that GOP polls also show the race dead even, but "energy" and enthusiasm on the Republican side. They also see that the positive impact of Obama's aid to Hurricane Sandy victims wearing off.

But they are confident to a point: Insiders fear that the new Romney surge might still fall short by as few as four Electoral Votes, especially if he fails to win Ohio, which is a dead heat. Plus Team Obama shrugs off the Romney talk of energy and enthusiasm as "atmospherics, not cold hard facts like polls."

Team Romney is drawing satisfaction and a growing sense of confidence from a new CNN poll that, while over-weighting Democrats, shows that Mitt Romney is running away with independents, the Big Kahuna in Tuesday's presidential election.

According to a new CNN poll, Romney is beating President Obama 59 percent to 35 percent among independents even when third party candidates are included. The poll has the race deadlocked at 49 percent, but the sample includes 11 percent more Democrats than Republicans, 41 percent to 30 percent, a bigger gap than recent elections have witnessed.

What's more, the poll found a slight edge for Romney when it came to those who call themselves "very enthusiastic" about voting. In that category, Romney beats Obama 42 percent to 37 percent.

"We are winning with independents and enthusiasm goes to us," said a Romney associate, who also pointed to the huge, 20,000-30,000 strong crowd that greeted Romney in Pennsylvania Sunday night as proof the Republican had regained momentum.

"If it's tied overall and we are crushing with independents and have enthusiasm on our side, and we get 30,000 to show up in Pennsylvania," a GOP advisor said, the election should turn to Romney.

Another Romney advisor said that GOP polls also show the race dead even, but "energy" and enthusiasm on the Republican side. They also see that the positive impact of Obama's aid to Hurricane Sandy victims wearing off.

But they are confident to a point: Insiders fear that the new Romney surge might still fall short by as few as four Electoral Votes, especially if he fails to win Ohio, which is a dead heat. Plus Team Obama shrugs off the Romney talk of energy and enthusiasm as "atmospherics, not cold hard facts like polls."

Tied, with Romney up 24 among independents?

And the Obama camp is talking about cold hard facts? Really? Axelrod wasn't talking about "cold hard facts", when Chris Wallace ran the early voting numbers in Ohio, showing Obama down 155,000 from his 2008 tally and Romney up 108,000 from what McCain had.

Obama won by 262,000 last time in that state. the difference between Obama's losses and Romney's gains is over 265,000.

I believe he's referring to the CNN Poll that has it tied, with Dems oversampled by 11.

A total of 1,010 adults were interviewed by telephone nationwide by live interviewers calling both landline and cell phones. Allrespondents were asked questions concerning basic demographics, and the entire sample was weighted to reflect national Censusfigures for gender, race, age, education, region of country, telephone usage and whether respondents own or rent their homes.Registered voters were asked questions about their likelihood of voting, past voting behavior, and interest in the campaign; basedon answers to those questions, 693 respondents were classified as likely voters.

Respondents who reported that they had already cast an absentee ballot or voted early were automatically classified as likely voters. Among those likely voters, 41% described themselves as Democrats, 29% described themselves as Independents, and 30% described themselves as Republicans.

Crosstabs on the following pages only include results for subgroups with enough unweighted cases to produce a sampling errorof +/- 8.5 percentage points or less. Some subgroups represent too small a share of the national population to produce crosstabswith an acceptable sampling error. Interviews were conducted among these subgroups, but results for groups with a samplingerror larger than +/-8.5 percentage points are not displayed and instead are denoted with "N/A".POLL

is that including the fraud that is going on? They are doing there very best to steal this election that is for sure.from new "software" that had a glitch resulting in thousands of lost ballots to poll workers filling in blank ballots. It won't work but damn they are trying, quite the bit of integrity hey coach?

SO let me get this straight... the romney campaign makes up any numbers they want - numbers that give them hope but don't match any polling organization, even rassmussen... they hand it to an overseas newspaper, then DRUDGE cites them as news.

BWAAAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAH

Seriously, you have to laugh at the absurdity of that. JUST LIKE 2008.

Odds To Win: On to the odds to win tomorrow's Presidential election... Since our last update, President Obama has taken a huge lead over GOP nom Mitt Romney. Just a few weeks ago we were talking about Romney getting closer to 1/1 odds but, since then Romney has dropped all the way down to 3/1 odds or +300. And with that large downward swing for Romney, Obama's election odds have shot up to 1/4 or -400. The difference? A $1 wager on Romney pays $3 ($4 total) versus a $1 wager on Obama that would pay just $.25 ($1.25 total